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Recorded at Cracker-Jap Studio, Brooklyn. Heh. I've got many Kikuchi albums but this one I'm going to pass.

Ike Quebec “The Complete Blue Note 45 Sessions” Blue Note 2 cd set, disc 2 This is just the right music for right now.

It is not at all a discography. The title says it: Listening to Prestige.

purchased and enjoyed ! Great ! That´s the kind of acoustic straight ahead I still listen to. That version of "Donna Lee" is incredible. And as I said, Cindy Blackman when she was a jazz only drummer was my favourite of her generation.

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Love it and posted my impressions about her here on Friday....

ordered 😄

Is it only a discography or is also some stories or infos about the musicians and the music etc. ?

I have read that he had also connections to Viena since he had studied classical guitar there. I saw his group Oregon once.....well that was a festival with big names like Herbie Hancock, Blakey, Diz, Jackie McLean (I dug him most of course !) and well.....the Oregon music was not exactly my can, but it had great moments that I dug.

Selling a 10-CD box of live 1990 recordings of Cecil Taylor's Feel Trio (Cecil, Tony Oxley and William Parker) 2Ts for a Lovely T : https://www.discogs.com/release/983489-Cecil-Taylor-Feel-Trio-2-Ts-For-A-Lovely-T . This is a limited edition of 1000. I bought it new in 2002 from Mole Jazz in the UK. The CDs are in excellent condition (some, I have to admit, were never played) - with an exception of Disc One that has a few nasty scratches that result in a two-second drop-out in the middle of track one. Given the relentlessness of the music, some might consider the enforced respite an attractive feature. The booklet is in OK condition, shows some signs of wear. So does the box. A couple of the double jewel cases have cracks but hold together well. I can have them replaced. The cheapest set currently on offer at Discogs is €215 ($250). I would offer mine for €170 ($200) plus tracked shipping - €20 to Europe (yes, UK included) and €30 ($35) elsewhere. I shipped some CDs to the US recently, and it seems to work OK, no tariff fun. Preferred way to receive money is direct bank transfer. US residents can pay by an ACH transfer in $, which is a simple and free way to transfer money, although nobody in the US seems to know about this. Not preferred - but grudgingly accepted - way to receive the money is rip-off antiquated PayPal, but then you cover all the bullshit transfer and exchange rate fees. Drop me an email to djmdavid at yahoo dot com and I will indulge you with exciting photos and second-by-second reviews of the music.

The Ellington/Hodges is now sold. Prices reduced on the remaining 3 records. Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake: From The River to the Ocean 2 LP, Thrill Jockey Records, 2002 Limited Edition colored vinyl. NM/NM. Played once. Fabulous music and great sound on this one. $31 Art Ensemble of Chicago: Tutankhamun ORG Music/Freedom, 2023 Limited Edition silver vinyl NM/NM. Played once. Still in original shrink wrap but shrink wrap open on side edge to retrieve vinyl. $20 Albert Ayler, Don Cherry, John Tchicai, Roswell Rudd, Gary Peacock, Sonny Murray: New York Eye and Ear Control ESP-Disk, 2017 White vinyl Cover: VG+ due to crease to top right corner of front cover Vinyl: NM. Played once. $20 Shipping is $6 per record (+ $1 each additional record). 2lp counts as 2 records for shipping. U.S. shipping only. Pay pal friends/family.

Jacy Parker!

that Al Francis record is excellent

Wilbur Wood has died at 84. RIP. He was a favorite of mine. I saw him at Fenway in 1972, the day of the Vendome Hotel fire. Black smoke rose over the outfield wall the whole game. Late in the game, Chuck Tanner replaced Wood with the young Terry Forster (many years later referred to by David Letterman as "a fat tub of goo"). After two hours of Wood's knuckleballs, the Red Sox never got their bats off their shoulders for Forster's fastballs. https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/mlb/wilbur-wood-famed-white-sox-knuckleball-pitcher-dead-at-84/ar-AA1UtDFR

miles davis/kind of blue/all blues/miles's ending statement @ 'bout 10:59.

I did some research for Ulrich on that book, and am mentioned in the "Special Thanks" section. Along with a Special Thanks credit in the documentary film on Judee Sill, those are my public credentials as a music researcher.

I enjoyed her set at the last Big Ears Festival (and the CD).

Disc Four

So are the Yankees now broke, or what?

Amanda Shires: Nobody's Girl

Odin LP 18 - The Norwegian Radio Big Band Meets Bob Florence - rec. 1986 - Liberty LPR 3380 (FSR reissue 1985) - Bob Florence Big Band " Here And Now" - rec. 1964 -

I'd need to see an apples to apples comparison of Steinbrenner era Yankee payrolls vs the other teams in the league at the time. Otherwise its just a facile point of reference. Did the article even mention LA's local rights deal? All of this was foretold when they signed it at the height of the "buy up every sporting event broadcast/cable right NOW!" era.

From The Athletic. Today's Dodgers make the George Steinbrenner-era Yankees seem like penny-pinchers: "Nobody spends money quite like the Dodgers. Their latest luxury spend: outfielder Kyle Tucker, who signed a four-year, $240 million deal, with opt-outs after Years 2 and 3. With deferrals ($30 million over the final three years), his “luxury tax” salary for 2026 is $57.1 million. At roughly $90 million over the highest luxury tax bracket threshold, L.A. will be paying a 110 percent tax on Tucker’s contract. I did the math … That’s $119.91 million out of pocket just in 2026. According to FanGraphs’ projected 2026 payrolls, that’s more than 11 teams will pay their entire roster. L.A. will also forfeit four of its top six draft picks. It seems it's stopped worrying about any coming “cliff.” Since November 2023, per Spotrac, there have been 29 nine-digit contracts/extensions in baseball — about one per team. Tucker is the Dodgers’ sixth after Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Blake Snell and the Tyler Glasnow and Will Smith extensions. Sixteen teams have not handed out any such contract over that time. The Dodgers currently have eight players projected to make more than $20 million per year in 2026. That’s (obviously) the most, with the Yankees, Mets and Phillies at six each. Eight teams (Pirates, Cardinals, Reds, Nationals, Marlins, White Sox, Twins, Rays) have zero such players. Five teams (Rockies, A’s, Mariners, Guardians, Orioles) have one." Of course the Dodgers have the right, under current rules, to spend like this if they're willing to pay the luxury taxes cited above. And I'm no fan of a salary cap--that's not about reducing fiscal inequality among teams (fiscal inequality as a general value, last time I checked, is something tycoon owners have no problem with at all), it's about controlling player salaries. And yes, the Dodgers have done other things to create their present prowess in addition to exorbitant spending. But if you want to hate a team that goes out and buys any player it wants, hard to beat L.A. in that category these days.